🚨 Please note: For the latest on the future of BikePortland, please read this update from founder and publisher Jonathan Maus.
Spotted at TRB 2010.(Photo: Robert Rescot/Twitter) The Transportation Research Board is wrapping up their Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. this week. For the uninitiated, the TRB’s mission is to “promote innovation and progress in transportation through research.” Our own Elly Blue attended (along with about 11,000 others) last year and dubbed it the Great Transportation … Read more
Rarely will there exist a chance of community riding in such a capacity as this. — From TweedPDX.com As we kindly mentioned back in November, it brings us great pleasure to share the splendid details of Portland’s first annual Tweed Ride which will commence at eleven o’clock in the morning on the 30th of January. … Read more
A project currently on the shelf at PBOT would place markings like this (which happens to be in Seattle) every 100 feet on every lane on nearly every street in downtown Portland.(Photos © J. Maus)
Tell City leaders your top safety concerns at upcoming summit.(Photo © J. Maus) 2010 is shaping up to be the Year of Transportation in Portland (and beyond). In December, we shared news that ODOT’s top guy in our region, Jason Tell, was pushing to make safety a higher priority. ODOT is also on a statewide … Read more
Rain and bike fun go together just fine. (Photo © J. Maus) A solid lineup of weekend events should ensure bike fun for all. Don’t mind the rain. And let us know what you’re up to by bike in the comments.
The future of bicycle racing in Oregon.From L to R: Liz Cartwright, Brian Fawcett, Fiona Graham, Keith Fawcett, Hannah McDade, Grant McElroy, Naiqwan Pelman.(Photos © J. Maus)
Not quite done.(Photo: Adams Carroll) It was supposed to already be open, but Multnomah County spokesperson Mike Pullen tells us that the long-awaited bikeway improvements on the Morrison Bridge won’t be ready until late February. The project was originally slated for completion in mid-December of last year, but Pullen says the County’s contractor has submitted … Read more
A project to install more sharrows in downtown Portland could benefit from potential stimulus funds.(Photo © J. Maus) As lawmakers in Washington D.C. contemplate a second major federal stimulus bill, the Portland Bureau of Transportation is working on a list of projects that would be ready to go if and when funding becomes available. PBOT … Read more
Portland’s Mounted Patrol Unit.(Photo: Police Bureau) The Portland Police Police Bureau, like all City bureaus, is facing another year of budget cuts. The PPB must reduce their budget for the coming year by 2% (other, non public safety bureaus have to cut 4%). One idea that has been proposed is to dissolve their Mounted Patrol … Read more
(Photo © Elly Blue) Walking past the Concordia University campus in Northeast Portland recently, I spotted this cargo trike converted to a landscaping truck.
Centennial Mills as it sits today on the west bank of Willamette.(Photo: PDC) Next Tuesday (1/19), the Portland Development Commission will hold a public open house for their Centennial Mills redevelopment project. This project is important to anyone who cares about Portland’s bike network because running smack dab through the parcel to be redeveloped is … Read more
“To insure that the City of Damascus is open as much as possible to the free flow of vehicular traffic and citizen travel within the city…” — Text from a ballot measure that would prohibit public mass transit in Damascus A ballot measure to be voted on in March in the city of Damascus, Oregon … Read more